Comments on: Sunday Tee Time for President Obamahttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/
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By: Chrishttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/comment-page-2/#comment-1450941
Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:26:02 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450941I ran into the president on the course that day, i am active duty and it was a great experience. He is using military courses to play not some fancy country club which i sure he could do. I think the president has earned a little down time. At least it was right near DC and not Texas. Hard work deserves play, isn’t that what most Americans believe.
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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:00:32 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450851Chris, #44:

I don’t know exactly which “left loons” you were replying to, but I know that I sure haven’t tried to “justify” any of President Obama’s actions by comparing them to those of George W. Bush. However, since the comparisons seem to be out there, let’s make them accurate. GWB took weeks at at time off. So far, Obama has done no such thing.

Do you think that some of the comments from the “left” are perhaps pointing out the hypocrisy of some conservatives slamming Obama for a date in New York and a few rounds of golf, when their guy went AWOL a few years ago with dazzling rapidity and frequency?

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:28:07 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450751As W said – “What, you mean every American doesn’t get 17 weeks of vacation each year? When did that happen? Heh, heh, heh.”
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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:19:59 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450745Before he was president, anywhere for a pedestrian pick-up game of one-on-one basketball was the rule ; now all that he does is golf on prestigious golf courses among the military and politically elite.

No, again, I am not a republican, nor a conservative, nor a democrat, or a liberal, or an independent, nor a voter; and in essence I am an American in name only.

Were circumstances favorable, I would be out of this country to Europe, to turn in my passport, and to thereafter visit relatives here on occasion.

I started questioning the American myth years ago. After Reagaon and both bushes took office, I stopped believing in anything that the US said or did.

Call it what you like but in order to make a tee time you must pay annual dues @ Belvoir. If you walk on, you are not assured play, and if there is an opening, then yes, you pay the green fees. On a beautiful weekend day, you better have a tee time.

At 8:30 am the driving range and putting greens where shut down. At 11:30 cones blocked the parking lot. At 12:30 golfers with tee times were turned away. It is 8 hours of disruption – There is a great deal of prep and added security and that is understood. I too have searched for info regarding the shut down times of the course. It’s not something advertised and you won’t find it…you will have to experience it.

It’s really simple….He wants to play golf and he’s the President. He knows the security needs.

So, if the President works 24/7 then there is not a ‘weekend’ for him, so to speak. He could play on Tuesday, Wednesday…any day when the course is less crowded and show some consideration for his fellow Americans.

BTW – this was weekend 3 of this so it was good PR to play with the base commander and his staff sergeant.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:50:28 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450593I’m sure BHO is exhausted!! It’s hard work having to control every single aspect of your life. His entire presidency is orchestrated. Nothing gets by him. He runs his administration like a Chicago mobster. Don’t cross, antagonize or make him look bad. You will most certainly pay the price. How much longer until the media has had their fill of his LACK of transparency
— Deb

Still sore about Hillary, Deb in RI?

]]>By: Debhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1450547
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:16:13 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450547I’m sure BHO is exhausted!! It’s hard work having to control every single aspect of your life. His entire presidency is orchestrated. Nothing gets by him. He runs his administration like a Chicago mobster. Don’t cross, antagonize or make him look bad. You will most certainly pay the price. How much longer until the media has had their fill of his LACK of transparency
]]>By: ginishttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1450455
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:42:47 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450455It would be very helpful if President Barach Oboma would provide to us a diagram what our democratic government is going to look like when he is finished moving things around and modifying our goernment to suit his objectives.
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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:51:00 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450399I do not have a problem with Mr. Obama playing a round of golf. However, I do find the justification by the left loons that GW took all of this time off funny. Let’s see- We hate GW and everything thing he does but we justify what Mr. Obama does by what GW did. Interesting.
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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:21:28 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450381Hey GOPers — If your strategy is to improve your performance in upcoming elections rather than repeat your recently dismal outcomes by crying and whining, I don’t think it’s working so far.

There’s only one thing to do: Cry louder, whine harder.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:48:04 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450357Is anyone surprised THIS is in the news? The President deserves some R&R….by himself or with his family.

As its been said before…the “Rs” said nothing when the Bushes were taking R&Rs (all 900 days) during his administration. I doubt Obama will even come close to the 900 days off during his term(s). He has proven himself to be a much more effective commander in chief in just the first 100 days in office!!!

So, Republican, cut the man some slack and PLEASE put this same amount of energy into solving just one problem America faces today….just ONE!!!! I dare you…

]]>By: Maryhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1450295
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:56:42 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450295I, for one, am glad to have a president who seems to know his limits, and know what he needs to do to rejuvenate himself to work even harder for us. We elected a man, not a god! If he wants to take his wife to New York for a weekend, especially with everything he’s had on his plate for the past four months, who am I to say he shouldn’t? Quite the reverse: I hope they had a great time.

About the comparisons to Bush: I wouldn’t (and didn’t) begrudge Obama’s predecessor reasonable time away from his responsibilities, either. However, my recollection is that Bush accomplished far less during his first several months in office, had markedly fewer press conferences, made fewer trips to try to repair the U.S.’s image abroad (which, granted, hadn’t been trashed yet), and then repaired to his ranch in Crawford, TX in August, 2001 for almost a full month. Makes me wonder just who was running the country during that time! It also raises the question about what would or wouldn’t have happened the following month had he been fully engaged during August, to the point of paying a little more attention to that infamous memo of August 6, 2001.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:54:17 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450293It’s not about what political party is in the White House or about taking time to golf, the real issue is when you become the president you accept that some things are off limits and travelling to NYC for a date at taxpayers expense is one of them. Certainly a dinner in Georgetown and seats at the presidential box at the Kenneedy Center would suffice for a really nice date. Truly has anyone calculated the costs for this date?
]]>By: Jane Smithhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1450283
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:27:20 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/sunday-tee-time-for-president-obama/#comment-1450283Now that Obama owns two car companies (Chrysler and GM) and keeps giving bailouts to financial companies that gave his campaign millions of dollars (last count, AIG is at 180 billion dollars in bailout money), why would Obama need to work?
He can relax for the next 4 years and make some more great speeches and get re-elected anyway.
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